Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...

Researchers have uncovered how primate brains transform flat, 2D visual inputs into rich, 3D mental representations of objects.

A new fMRI study found that adults with autism and neurotypical individuals process images of body parts similarly in the ...

New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems.

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain’s visual system: one that’s responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that’s involved in ...

This breakthrough in visual pattern recognition in bees reveals how these insects’ unique behaviours inform smarter, more ...

Learn the life-threatening brain blood clot signs everyone should recognize. These red flags require immediate emergency care ...

This optical illusion confuses the brain, revealing how perception works and misfires. It also shows links between visual ...

CRISPR construct to genetically ablate the GABA transporter GAT3 in the mouse visual cortex, with effects on population-level neuronal activity. This work is important, as it sheds light on how GAT3 ...

The rugby player Joseph-Akuso Suaalii has sparked curiosity with his warm-up routine involving juggling and peripheral ...

"There isn't a meaningful limit to how much information the brain can store," said Elizabeth Kensinger, a professor of ...